Clemenceau must have been very glad to have lost that particular election, it kept him out of the inevitable catastrophe. This is fascinating, thanks for telling this story. Looking forward to the Mexican Revolution.

What this series is doing for me is finally answering the question of how a mob in Paris imagined it could declare a commune and impose its will upon the entire country. Now I begin to understand as much as anyone can understand, After months of starvation and being literally shell shocked, judgement was warped by stress. Add to that a history where it must have seemed that Paris HAD imposed its will upon the country, and well, you begin to understand how people could have been so deluded.

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dunno about Mike, but Ian I found your comment fascinating. What struck me was the chilling description of how Prussia had organized its economy around waging war, hit far too close to home for this American.

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Where were the churches of Germany during all this? Or is that just one too many strands to keep up with in what is a very chaotic and complicated story? Were there differences between the Lutherans, Reformed, and Catholic? Or were they all leery of revolutionaries?

Thanks for telling this, the Czech and Hungarian part of this story is what most interests me. The recriminations in the aftermath must have been plenty bitter.
I had not really considered it, but the Slaves of central and eastern Europe were all dominated by non-Slavic people, except the Poles of Tsarist Russia, and that was not a happy arrangement.
You can see how all these nationalist aspirations coalesced in 1918.

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What impresses me is how all parties learned from the revolution of 1789. The monarchy learned that there is a moment when you had to leave town, the sans-culottes learned to let the king and family go into exile, and to keep the rough stuff to a minimum.

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Thank you, this is a great story. Can't wait for the German part. I have been enjoying Guizot's Popular History of France which is on audio book on YouTube and find is hard to square his dispassionate discourse on 16th century France with his deeply corrupt government.

do the expat communities in the US play any role in all this? or mostly expat communities in Paris and London? Of course during this time the US is consumed with the tumble towards Civil War, but I am thinking of Europeans living in the US. For example, the area of DC known as Foggy Bottom was known as Little Hamburg in 1848. Were books and journals making their way back to Prussia, Austria, Hungary, Poland, and Italy from the US? What about $ coming from immigrants to their families on the old country? Or is that simply not a factor?